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Not long after eMagi’s post about Viz Media providing free streaming of their latest Naruto Shippuden anime a week after the Japanese Broadcast comes this massive and potentially market changing announcement from Crunchyroll. The Crunchyroll service was similar to their rivals Youtube, where they would host and publish user created content to the world. However [...]

In the long lasting fight against fansubs, Viz Media has announced that they will be streaming the latest anime episodes of the highly popular Naturo Shippuden a week after the Japanese broadcast episode! This is quite a turnover because popular groups that fansub Naturo on average take a week to turn out the subtitles so [...]

A good few months before the London MCM Expo, eMagi heard about an event in London that we previously were unaware that was taking place. Here on eMagi we like to know more about Japanese related events here in the UK and so got in contact with the organisers Ivan and Max, directly. Asking about [...]

Yen Press has announced some new releases to their collection! Yen Press is a Manga and Graphical Novel publisher that also creates a monthly anthology of their work called Yen Plus. Originally founded in 2006 it continues to grow, offering support to publish original fan created work as well as retail content such as Soul [...]

On Wednesday an announcement was made in Tokyo, Japan about a new acquisition. Universal Pictures are set to acquire Dentsu’s Geneon Entertainment early next year. For anime fans most will recognise the Geneon brand being former partners with ADV before it collapsed in November 2007.
Details are that Universal will buy an 80.1% stake in Geneon [...]

Orbital Manga, London, will be holding a special triple manga signing with guests promoting the Self Made Manga brand. The special guests are Chie Kutsuwada, Ryuta Osada, Mustashrik Mahbub from the manga visual novels Julius Caesar, As you like it and Othello! Here is the statement from Orbital Manga:
The artists Chie Kutsuwada, Ryuta Osada, Mustashrik [...]

A festival in Japan called “Itasha G Fesuta” took place on Sunday 9th in Japan which featured around 450 cars organised by a popular Japanese graphical magazine. The term “itasha” refers to cars which have been illustrated upon by anime, manga and videgame character decals. Not only cars were on display but other forms of [...]

Taito, a company now owned by Square-Enix, has been lovingly animated for its Game Station arcades in Japan. It features a young girl entering an arcade after being enticed by a sign on the staff door. She then enters the room to be met by a wealth of old arcades, yet is drawn to one [...]

After finding out that the Hello Kitty mascot is now 34 years young, the hugely popular franchise turns to help ease poverty by combining one of the favourite pastimes of the world to help charity. Sanrio Digital the creators of Hello Kitty Online (which is still in closed beta), have created an online event called [...]

Anime fans that like to mix up their favourite hobby with the latest technology will get a kick out of this. Available from Buffalo Japan you can buy a Chibi Gundam or a Chibi Lupin the Third which doubles as a figure and a 4GB USB pen drive. They have movable joints so you and [...]